From a problematic start, the journal is today the most important medical and public health journal in Ethiopia. Over the last 25-years, the journal has published 704 articles in 58 regular and 12 Special issues.

The Journal is an Open Access Journal, and all the issues can be viewed and downloaded at ejhd.uib.no.

Many readers use this online service. Each month about 500 visitors read or download full-text articles. The readers come from 99 countries and most readers are from Ethiopia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Germany, India, Australia, Netherlands and Switzerland.